Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...delicate problem of jockeying a Congress no longer his to ride, Franklin Roosevelt last week addressed himself with characteristic adroitness. He delivered to it a stirring Annual Message which made national defense the paramount purpose of the day. He followed his request for a major controversial item of expense-Relief-with a Budget Message which contained an uncontroversial new national defense figure-only $500,000,000 extra instead of the billion many observers had expected. This brought him to his first two problems...
...Army, but upped Navy $161,000,000 (mostly for starting two new battleships, two cruisers, eight destroyers, etc.) to a whopping $720,000,000. His big news on Rearmament was that he would this week ask Congress in a supplementary message for some $500,000,000 more. Biggest item: $300,000,000 for 3,500 to 4,000 new Army planes, jumping the total in prospect by 1941 to around 6,000 (as against the 10,000 predicted during recent Rearmament hullabaloo...
...vehicle for Gabrielle Réjane. Eight years later, David Belasco used it to further the fabulous career of red-headed Mrs. Leslie Carter. In 1920, Zaza became an opera for Geraldine Farrar. In 1923, Gloria Swanson was Zaza in a silent picture. A favorite item in the repertory of stock-company leading ladies the world over, Zaza has been running off & on ever since Playwrights Pierre Berton and Charles Simon wrote it, has probably alarmed more censors than any other single drama in the 20th Century...
Beethoven: Quartet in E Flat Major for Piano and Strings (E. Robert Schmitz and members of the Roth Quartet; Columbia: 7 sides). An early but likable Beethoven item originally written, as Op. 16, for piano and wind instruments. The performance is well-tooled...
...regard to the item you carried about my trouble in TIME Magazine [TIME, Nov. 7], it has been rumored here that I sent this news to your magazine for publication! How absurd this is! I can truthfully say I never sent publicity to a magazine or a newspaper in my life unless I was asked for it. I've never answered a critical book review. I feel like I've had my 'say' in the book and the reviewer is entitled to express his opinion. But when a constable hits me three times over the head...